🚀 go-pugleaf

I was faced with a similar challenge, and here is what I found:

1. The README file for FIPS specifically says NOT to use it to repartition if
you are using a FAT32 system, which WIN98 has been trumpetting as one of it's
grand innovations). Only use it with FAT16.

2. Although Partition Magic is supposed to be able to reparition even FAT32
without losing any of your data ... I still lost all my data. Luckily I had
backed up the most important stuff (something that is strongly advisable,
whether using Partition Magic or not).

It is entirely possible that I stuffed up somewhere along the line and that was
why I lost everything, but either way I would make sure that I'd backed up all
my data files before proceeding.

Next, read the installation instructions that can be obtained from books,
various RedHat sites and quite likely your CD.

After that write down the specifications of all your hardware - especially your
monitor's refresh rate (nobody said that it was going to be the picnic that
Windows is to install!).

You will probably have to create a boot image disk using RAWrite so that you can
do an initial boot to start the partitioning process. At this point it may be
worth while writing down your disk's full capacity and dividing it up as fdisk
is going to ask you for the number of megs that you want to allocate to each
partition. You will probably want 2-4 paritions, one of which will be your swap
file which is roughly twice your RAM.

Once you've named your mount points (partitions) and their sizes you'll be asked
for your hardware specs. Selecting the correct graphics card and monitor are
very important as the wrong ones can be detrimental to your system (so I've been
told).

From there on you'll be selectin which software packages you want to install.

I hope I haven't left anything out.

Like I said, read the README file before you do anything.

Good luck, it's well worth the effort.

Michael Rosenthal

James Atkinson wrote:

> Its very easy....just repartition your Hard Drive, Win98 on 1 partiton and
> Linux on another. I suggest you get Partition Magic to do this (or a similar
> program) that can repartition your hard drive without destroying the data.
> FIPS might work of you as well, it can split a parition without destroying
> data. Partition Magic is much better thought because it allows you to resize
> partitions as well without loseing data. Once you have the partition of
> Linux its a snap to install! Good Luck
>
> James Atkinson
>
> David wrote in message <35cbfc57.0@tpg.com.au>...
> >I am using windows98 and now also want to install red hat 5.0 on my one
> >harddrive, how do I do it, can anyone direct me to notes on this topic?
> >
> >Thanking you for your help, it is greatly appreciated.
> >Regards
> >David
> >
> >